InformationLiberation: The Fluoride Conspiracy

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The Fluoride Conspiracy

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" Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it. "

- Adolf Hitler

 

" Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this

century. "

- Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

 

The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation

of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception.

Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that

it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence

shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate

their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer,

dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of

the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and

weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water

supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions

against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies,

precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be

filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing

resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but

unfortunately, because fluoride has become " the lifeblood of the

modern industrial economy " (Bryson 2004), there is too much money at

stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the

benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the

public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of

people, but to profit the military-industrial complex.

 

The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G.

Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving

loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of

the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American

Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with

I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a

hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-

operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in

America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben,

which listed on it's board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of

the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of

Rockerfeller's National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle,

President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the

federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany's

War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan,

controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of

which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their

crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the

American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer

of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its

technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other

companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben,

creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed " the fluoride

mafia " (Stephen 1995).

 

At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot

Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology

and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in

Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had

devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General

Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the

population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking

water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian

prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners " stupid and

docile " (Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to

fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that

fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain,

making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his

freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards

authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic

substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the

major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler's regime

practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but

the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques

to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in

the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA

activities, " the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program

to study possible means of controlling human behavior " (Stephen 1995).

 

The `dental caries prevention myth' associated with fluoride,

originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named

Gerald J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic

fluoride waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage

claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced

cavities and claimed that it should be added to the nation's water

supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was

appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that

placed him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the

next three years, eighty-seven new American cities began

fluoridating their water, including the control city in a water

fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating the most

scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was

ever completed.

 

American `education and research' was funded by the Aluminum

Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet

for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while

attaining positive profit increase. The `discovery' that fluoride

benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to

defend " lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial

fluoride emissions " (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an

asset. Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes

of explosives, fertilizers and other `necessities', was expensive to

dispose of properly and until a `use' was found for it in America's

water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous

waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste

product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides,

fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated

pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products,

fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much

a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical

income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is

financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially

devastating for their career and reputation.

 

Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public

acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of

PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to

persuade public opinion. Barnays explained " you can get practically

any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to

accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people,

regardless of how much he knows or doesn't know " (Bryson 2004).

Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn't know that research

discrediting fluoride's safety was either suppressed or not

conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with

scientific progress and since it was introduced to the public as a

health-enhancing substance, added to the environment for the

children's sake, those opposing fluoride were dismissed as cranks,

quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious to criticism because

of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of it's overall

toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a

systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it's

effects are more difficult to diagnose.

 

Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan

Project, shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb

production and millions of tonnes of it were needed for the

manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning,

not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health

hazard for both workers and nearby communities. A-bomb scientists

were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in litigation,

so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital

patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. " The August

1948 Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence

of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic

Energy Commission for reasons of " national security " (Griffiths

1998). The only report released stated that fluoride was safe for

humans in small doses.

 

During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the

toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading

scientific promoter of water fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was

reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, he was

covertly conducting one of the nation's first public water

fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying

biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at

the University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints

against the suppression of scientific data, the only published

conclusion resulting from these experiments was that fluoride was

safe in low doses, a profoundly helpful verdict for the US Military

who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury from workers in nuclear

power plants and munitions factories. Fluoride pollution was one of

the biggest legal worries facing key US industrial sectors during

the cold war. A secret group of corporate attorneys, known as the

Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included US Steel, ALCOA,

Kaiser Aluminum, and Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the

Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to " provide

ammunition " (Bryson 2004) for those corporations who were fighting a

wave of citizen claims for fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers

Committee and their medical ambassadors were in personal and

frequent contact with the senior officials of the federal National

Institute for Dental Research, and have been implied in

the `burying' of the forty year old Kettering study, which showed

that fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes in laboratory

animals. Private interests, sought to destroy careers and censor

information by ensuring that scientific studies raising doubts about

the safety of fluoride never got funded, and if they did, never got

published.

 

During the 1990's, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist

Phillis Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower

IQ's, and produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention

deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Just days before her

research was accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the

head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Then her

application for a grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous

system research was turned down by the US National Institute of

Health (NIH), when an NIH panel told her that " fluoride does not

have central nervous system effects " (Griffiths 1998).

 

Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US

federal and state pubic health agencies and large dental and medical

organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA),

continue to promote fluoride. Water fluoridation continues, despite

the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s own scientists, whose

union, Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, has

taken a strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president

of Chapter 280, stated that " fluoride (that is added to municipal

water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial

evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public

perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits " ( Mullenix

1998). Although fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur

dioxide, it is still not regulated as an air pollutant by the

American Clean Air Act. Since thousands of tonnes of industrial

fluoride waste is poured into drinking water supplies all over North

America, supposedly to encourage gleaming smiles in our children,

big industry in the US has the benefit of emitting as much fluoride

waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no

requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held

accountable for poisoning people, animals and vegetation.

 

In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research

Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS),

re-evaluate water fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent

scientific literature, because the last review in 1993 had major

gaps in research. " Neither the US Food and Drug Administration

(FDA), nor the National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR), nor

the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on

fluoride's safety or effectiveness " (Sterling 1993). The

International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified

fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to it's high

toxicity and the US National Cancer Institute Toxicological Program

has found fluoride to be an " equivocal carcinogen " (Maurer 1990).

 

Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further

fluoridation schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act

passed in November 2003, which has made it impossible for water

companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of

adding fluoride to public water supplies.

 

In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and

many other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it

is surprising that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly.

It seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry

to dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply.

Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a

capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has occurred

because a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in

order to protect it's own financial interests. " Those who manipulate

this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government

which is the true ruling power of our country... our minds are

molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we

have never heard of " (Bernays 1991).

 

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